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What are the pros and cons of using a separate SQL server?

As usual the only way to see exactly how your environment behaves is to try it within the constraints of your environment. In short, latencies will increase when having to cross a network link ...
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My instance is accessible from ipv4 address and public DNS. I want it to be accessible from domain name only

This is normal behavior of web servers that have virtual host concept. You need to set up a default virtual host in your webserver that returns for example 404 to every request. Then your website is ...
4 votes

What are the pros and cons of using a separate SQL server?

This response is not specific to WordPress, but applies equally to all web applications The common benefits to offloading the database (or any component) is that you can manage scale, redundancy and ...
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Very low memory usage during heavy load test

10000 clients/second? What order of magnitude of requests do you actually expect to get? Stack Exchange, the entire network, peaks at maybe 5,000 requests per second for ~1.3 billion page views per ...
1 vote
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Trying to install Wordpress locally by using docker where some folder symlinked to my git directory

The symlink is resolved inside the container. You can add the directory as an additional volume volumes: - ./wordpress:/var/www/html - /Users/anatoly/Developer/example.com/:/Users/anatoly/Developer/...
1 vote

My site direct me to https://example.com/

If I'm understanding your post correctly, you're directed to the actual domain https://example.com. I assume you used online tutorials to set up your Wordpress site. In tutorials often placeholders ...
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Apache won’t force https://domain to https://www.domain (Rewrite not working)

You still need a valid certificate for http://example.com. The redirect happens after a valid TLS connection is established. Grab a certificate for example.com with www.example.com in the SAN field.
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Why is google spamming my Wordpress site with dating keywords?

I had blocked them in robot.txt Disallow: /*?s=* I had a lot of request similar to the following from googlebot https://example.com/es/?s=%20Levitra%2010mg%20filmtabletten%20rezeptfrei%20Viagra%...
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AWS CloudFront Wordpress Origin Issue

It seems that CloudFront works as a reverse proxy here. This means that it will open a TCP connection to the verification service, and on that connection, the source IP is CloudFront IP. This is ...
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What permissions would I need to give a developer for a Wordpress website?

You'll have to give them the administrator role, as that is the only role out of the box that can do anything to plugins. https://wordpress.org/support/article/roles-and-capabilities/#administrator ...
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Why would my WordPress website be so slow?

It looks like in the end for me, the thing that made the biggest impact and made my site load like 10x faster was moving to a XAMPP installation. The following are some changes that were made in my ...
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How to configure domain for a exists domain

Configure the correct DNS records Point the DNS host/domain names for which you want show websites to the IP-address of your webserver. Configure the web server Like all modern web servers nginx ...
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